Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 3 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 4 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 5 | I entered into the spirit of the occasion by volunteering as one of about twenty stage guinea pigs , but within minutes I had been weeded out and sent back to my seat . |
| 6 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 7 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 8 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 9 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 10 | Like the basic GL model , the SE I tested is powered by the proven 2-litre engine allied to a smooth five-speed gearbox ( automatic transmission is an £875 option ) . |
| 11 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 12 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 13 | A year passed before I was able to witness this second part of the mayor-making , so it was a different mayor I saw being installed . |
| 14 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 15 | This particular Saturday I 'd been allowed — for the first time — to stay at home alone . |
| 16 | And was that Gavin I saw being deported from Holland ? have n't heard anything from him this morning so I assume not . |
| 17 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 18 | ‘ Yul was determined that every question I asked be answered . |
| 19 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 20 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 21 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 22 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 23 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 24 | Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young . |
| 25 | For no good reason , that settled it , by which I mean that what conscience I had was put to sleep by sheer , raging curiosity . |
| 26 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 27 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 28 | I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of the things I did were done for shock value . |
| 30 | With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side . |